Description
"Topography of Silence" is a documentary record of the state of preservation until the beginning of the 21st century of landed estates in Greater Poland. The series is a further continuation of the earlier "Silence.", implemented between 2000 and 2008, concluded with an unusual book, which won an honorable mention in the Photographic Publication of the Year competition of the f5 bookstore in Lodz. "Topography of Silence" was commissioned by the Adam Mickiewicz Museum in Smielowo, a branch of the National Museum in Poznan, where the set of photographs is located. The album "Topography of Silence" is also available for purchase in our KF Gallery, both in hard copy and pdf form.
Waldemar Sliwczynski (1958) - publisher (2000-2012) and editor-in-chief (2008-2012) of "Kwartalnik Fotografia", photographer, member of ZPAF (since 2002) and Wrześnica Śliwczyński/Zjeżdżałka Creative Group (1998-2008), author of books (among others): Park Piłsudskiego (2007), Silence (2008), Topography of silence (2012), 808.2 km (2015), Forgotten heritage (2018), My opinion (2022), exhibits at home and abroad (France, Germany, Ukraine, Slovakia), initiator and first curator of the Września Collection (2010-2015). For 30 years (1990-2020), together with his wife Jolanta Śliwczyńska, he ran "Wiadomości Wrzesińska". He lives and works in Wrzesnia.